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Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 29, 2011
Summary: Eloqua's registration statement offers new and interesting details about its business. Eloqua last week filed for an initial public offering of its stock. I expected it to grow as Eloqua sold into larger accounts. So much for what Eloqua said. (Of My analysis is below. But what does it mean?
Customer Experience Matrix
DECEMBER 20, 2012
Oracle announced today that it has agreed to purchase B2B marketing automation leader Eloqua for $23.50 This was a bit of a surprise, given that Eloqua just went public in August. It suggests that neither Oracle nor Eloqua management felt the company was substantially undervalued. per share, which comes to $871 million.
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Customer Experience Matrix
JULY 31, 2012
I’ve just released the latest edition of my B2B Marketing Automation Vendor Selection Tool (VEST), which contains detailed analysis of all 22 B2B marketing automation systems. I put this at $325 million for 2011, a 50% increase from 2010. Vendors in the VEST are asked for estimates of their client counts by company size.
Customer Experience Matrix
AUGUST 1, 2012
I’ve gotten used to thinking of the B2B marketing automation industry as entering a consolidation phase, during which a handful of dominant vendors emerge and small vendors drop away. It's only in the later stages of consolidation – after crossing Geoffrey Moore’s chasm – that the dominant vendors really take control.
Customer Experience Matrix
JANUARY 5, 2010
Summary: Social media and access for sales people were the two big trends among demand generation vendors last year. Even though this is limited to the vendors in the Guide, it's a pretty representative sample of the industry as a whole. Eloqua focused on making it easier to embed sharable links within conventional marketing assets.
ANNUITAS
MARCH 10, 2016
It’s been nearly two decades since marketing automation pushed into the B2B scene with the introduction of Eloqua in 1999. Eleven years later, in 2010, marketing automation became its own category with over 110 known vendors in the space. Since then, every marketer is now a potential buyer of this technology.
Customer Experience Matrix
JUNE 27, 2013
Adobe today announced plans to acquire Neolane , the largest remaining independent B2C marketing automation vendor (excluding email-focused providers like Responsys and Silverpop ). Price was $600 million, which is roughly in line with the 8x revenue paid for ExactTarget and Eloqua recently.
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